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Appeared on: Tuesday, July 20, 2010
New Core i5 and i7s Shipping

Intel has released new desktop PC processors this week including the benchmark-smashing, six-core Core i7-970, which takes advantage of the 32 nanometer manufacturing to bring six cores and twelve threads of processing goodness to new segments.

Intel's factories are also cranking out the new quad-core, 2.8 GHz Core i5-760 processor this week.

The Core i7-970 is priced at $885 and follows the six-core i7 980X ($999) released earlier this year. Like the 980X, it has 12MB of L3 cache memory. The processor is
rated at 3.2GHz and has a "locked" CPU multiplier, which means it is not marketed as a chip that is officially eligible for overclocking.

Intel also introduced other desktop chips, such as the 2.8GHz Core i5-760, priced at $205, while cutting prices on processors such as the 2.93GHz Core i7-870, reduced to $294 from $562. The company also eliminated more than a dozen Xeon processor models for servers and workstations. The Xeon 5400 is not listed at all, the Xeon X3480 (3.06GHz) is now priced at $328 while the Core i3-540 (3.06GHz), the Pentium E6600 (3.06GHz) and the E5500 (2.8GHz) chips are also significantly cheaper.